So I'm a bit behind the times eh?

England has mostly passed me in a dream. 2 weeks in maidenhead offered me the perfect sojourn into familiar bliss. The twins are heartbreakingly sweet, and Sadie is turning into an absolutely phenomenal young lady. She's tricky and super smart. Days were spent waking up and helping aside get ready for school( this mostly consisted of her crawling into bed with me and being late). Then the twins would play for a bit before going up for a nap. Then lunch, more playing, picking Sadie up from school, more playing, dinner and bed time. I am in awe of the amount of work Shannon gets done. She is a workhorse who maintains her sense of humour and calm- for the most part, when after Halloween it was discovered that Sadie had a hidden stockpile of candy in her room, Shannon had a hard time balancing her anger at the deceit against her pride that her child was so resourceful. On the first Saturday I spent a lovely night in reading with heather, Rosie and Steve, drinking and making cupcakes. I don't mind telling you that they were an unmitigated success considering the cupcake liners we had didn't fit the tin, we ran out of liners and were trying out a new recipe. But it was a lovely slice of Canada away from home.